In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!
The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!
A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!
The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day!
A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States!
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!
Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!
One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
Porcupines float in water!
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds! During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe !
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
Slugs have 4 noses!
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!
The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!
Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!
There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter. "!
Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate!
The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia!
There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!
Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!
One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby!
In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds!
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!
The average person laughs 13 times a day!
Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow!
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though!
The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!
Monday, January 21, 2008
Sunday, January 20, 2008
AMAZING FACTS
cats can make 100 sounds and dogs can make 1o sounds
A sneeze can travel as fast as one hundred miles per hour.
our blood travels almost 30 crores
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.
75-90% of primary physician visits are due to stress.
A kiss for one minute can burn 26.
A little under one quarter of the people in the world are vegetarians.
A person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day will on average lose two teeth every ten years.
A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.
A human embryo is smaller than a grain of rice at four weeks old.
A study concludes that kids who snore do poorly in school.
A study indicates that smokers are likely to die on average six and a half years earlier than non-smokers.
A women from Berlin Germany has had 3,110 gallstones taken out of her gall bladder.
A yawn usually lasts for approximately six seconds.
About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
A blink lasts approximately 0.3 seconds.
Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.
According to the American Institute of Stress, job stress approximately costs the U.S. industry over $300 billion dollars per year.
After twenty-seven years, Betty Rubble made her debut as a Flintstones Vitamin in 1996.
Air is passed through the nose at a speed of 100 miles per hour when a person sneezes.
Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.
An adult esophagus can range from 10 to 14 inches in length and is one inch in diameter.
An average adult produces about half a litre of flatulent gas per day, resulting in an average of about fourteen occurrences of flatulence a day.
Approximately 1-2 calorie are burned a minute while watching T.V.
Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
Asthma affects one in fifteen children under the age of eighteen.
At least 7% of all health care costs in the United States are attributed to smoking.
At one time it was thought that the heart controlled a person's emotions, Babies that are exposed to cats and dogs in their first year of life have a lower chance of developing allergies when they grow older.
Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
Brain damage will only occur if a fever goes above 107.6 degrees farenheit.
By walking an extra 20 minutes every day, an average person will burn off seven pounds of body fat in an year.
Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes.
A sneeze can travel as fast as one hundred miles per hour.
our blood travels almost 30 crores
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.
75-90% of primary physician visits are due to stress.
A kiss for one minute can burn 26.
A little under one quarter of the people in the world are vegetarians.
A person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day will on average lose two teeth every ten years.
A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.
A human embryo is smaller than a grain of rice at four weeks old.
A study concludes that kids who snore do poorly in school.
A study indicates that smokers are likely to die on average six and a half years earlier than non-smokers.
A women from Berlin Germany has had 3,110 gallstones taken out of her gall bladder.
A yawn usually lasts for approximately six seconds.
About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
A blink lasts approximately 0.3 seconds.
Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.
According to the American Institute of Stress, job stress approximately costs the U.S. industry over $300 billion dollars per year.
After twenty-seven years, Betty Rubble made her debut as a Flintstones Vitamin in 1996.
Air is passed through the nose at a speed of 100 miles per hour when a person sneezes.
Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.
An adult esophagus can range from 10 to 14 inches in length and is one inch in diameter.
An average adult produces about half a litre of flatulent gas per day, resulting in an average of about fourteen occurrences of flatulence a day.
Approximately 1-2 calorie are burned a minute while watching T.V.
Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
Asthma affects one in fifteen children under the age of eighteen.
At least 7% of all health care costs in the United States are attributed to smoking.
At one time it was thought that the heart controlled a person's emotions, Babies that are exposed to cats and dogs in their first year of life have a lower chance of developing allergies when they grow older.
Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
Brain damage will only occur if a fever goes above 107.6 degrees farenheit.
By walking an extra 20 minutes every day, an average person will burn off seven pounds of body fat in an year.
Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes.
ARMY OF TWO- ONE OF THE BEST GAME FOR XBOX AND PS3
EA's(ELECTRONIC ARTS) new next-gen action game features an emphasis on co-operative tactics - either with a friend or using an AI partner.
Army of Two, a two-player co-op game,developed by Electronic Arts, to be released on XboX 360 and PlayStation 3 on March 4, 2008.
Army of Two, a two-player co-op game,developed by Electronic Arts, to be released on XboX 360 and PlayStation 3 on March 4, 2008.
Army of Two throws gamers into hot spots ripped from current day headlines where they will utilize unique two-man strategies and tactics while seamlessly transitioning between playing with intelligent Partner AI (PAI) and a live player. When one man is not enough, it will take an army of two to fight through war, political turmoil and a conspiracy.
Developer(s): EA Montreal.
Publisher(s): Electronic Arts.
Release : March,2008.
Platform(s): Xbox 360, PlayStation 3.
THE WORLDS LONGEST FERRARI
All eight of the seats are carbon-fibre buckets with five-point race harnesses - which might sound excessive until you discover that the 3.6-litre V8 remains, its 395bhp propelling the mega-Ferrari to 60mph in under six seconds. Could prove a challenge not to spill your cheap champagne.Those gull-wing doors are nine-foot long and were designed by one of the teams responsible for the Mercedes SLR McLaren.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
CHANDRAYAAN-INDIAS FIRST MISSION TO MOON
AIM OF THE MISSION:
Chardrayaan-1 is the first Indian Mission to the Moon devoted to high-resolution remote sensing of the lunar surface features in visible, near infrared, X-ray and low energy gamma ray regions. This will be accomplished using several payloads already selected for the mission.The mission is proposed to be a lunar polar orbiter at an altitude of about 100 km and is planned to be launched by 2007-2008 using indigenous spacecraft and launch vehicle of ISRO. The mission is expected to have an operational life of aboutregions.
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES:
Carry out high resolution mapping of topographic features in 3D, distribution of various minerals and elemental chemical species including radioactive nuclides covering the entire lunar surface using a set of remote sensing payloads. The new set of data would help in unravelling mysteries about the origin and evolution of solar system in general and that of the moon in particular.
Realize the mission goal of harnessing the science payloads, lunar craft and the launch vehicle with suitable ground support system including DSN station, integration and testing, launching and achieving lunar orbit of ~100 km, in-orbit operation of experiments, communication/telecommand, telemetry data reception, quick look data and archival for scientific utilization by identified group of scientists.
Realize the mission goal of harnessing the science payloads, lunar craft and the launch vehicle with suitable ground support system including DSN station, integration and testing, launching and achieving lunar orbit of ~100 km, in-orbit operation of experiments, communication/telecommand, telemetry data reception, quick look data and archival for scientific utilization by identified group of scientists.
FACTS IN BRIEF:
Launch Date: 2008-04-09
Launch Vehicle: Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle C5
Launch Site: Sriharikota,
IndiaMass: 523.0 kg
Nominal Power: 750.0 W
MULTIMODE MOBILE PHONES INTRODUCED
As estimated eight per cent of Indian customers have two phones registered in their name — having one CDMA phone and the other GSM. Service providers are offering dual mode phones for those who can afford the asking price of Rs. 10,000-12,000. SpiceMobile was the first last year to offer two dual phone models, one of which took two GSM SIM cards and the other, one GSM and one CDMA SIM card.
The user can switch easily from one to the other mode and receive calls on both services. Almost at the same time, Tata Indicom launched a Samsung dual phone which took any combination of SIMs
Engineers at the Bangalore Engineering Development centre of Kyocera Wireless (India), a subsidiary of the San Diego, California-based parent, have helped to craft a dual mode mobile phone which uses a single number to make both CDMA-based cellular calls and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls using the nearest WiFi network or hot spot.
SAMSUNG MULTIMODE PHONES:
The first multi-mode mobile from Samsung, the SGH-T578H, supports TD-SCDMA HSDPA/ GSM/GPRS and EDGE networks. The phone was first previewed in Beijing, is powered by a software-defined modem capable of high-speed data transfer, at the rate of 2.8 Mbps, allowing consumers to download several high-quality MP3 files in a quick span of time.It is empowered by NXP’s Embedded Vector Processor (EVP).It also supports quad-band EDGE and dual-band TD-SCDMA with integrated multimedia accelerators.
According to Mr WS Lee, Vice President, Handset R&D Planning, Telecommunication Network Business, Samsung Electronics, “Multimedia and sharing of content will be the drivers for next-generation handsets. The combination of T third generation leading TD-SCDMA technology and NXP’s very innovative EVP technology make them better multimedia partners in costomer point of view.
FORTHCOMING DEVELOPMENTS:
It is expected that as wireless hot spots become more common, WiFi-enabled cellphones will explode in demand. ABI Research predicts there will be more than 300 million in use by 2011 — and, thanks to Kyocera’s Indian researchers, many of them may sport some Indian DNA
GEARS OF WAR - THE BEST RATED GAME FOR XBOX360
Gears of War is an remarkable technical achievement, but in addition to looking and sounding amazing, it's a seriously awesome action game. Gears of War is a tactical third-person shooter video game developed by Epic Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios. It was released for the Xbox 360 as an exclusive title on November 7, 2006 in select stores in the United States, and later broadly released in major U.S. retailers on November 12, 2006.
The game was released on November 17, 2006 in Europe outside of Germany. Gears of War has been highly successful since its release; it sold over three million copies in just ten weeks and was the fastest-selling video game of 2006. A film adaptation is currently in the works, and the game is slated to be the first of a trilogy.
At E3 2007 Microsoft confirmed the persistent rumor that Gears of War would be ported over to Windows. The game is a Games for Windows title, and was shipped on November 6, 2007. A Mac OS X release was confirmed by Epic's Mark Rein, speaking on a July 14, 2007 episode of Game Head.
STORY:
Gears of War takes place on Sera, a planet infested by humans, who have warred over a phosphorescent, low-viscosity fluid known as "Imulsion". the Pendulum Wars took place between various human countries, and ended with the Coalition of Ordered Governments (COG) taking control of the planet. The war quickly came to an end on "Emergence Day", when a ravenous force known as the Locust Horde bursts from underneath major human cities.
The Coalition, unable to defend against the sudden attack, is routed, and the Locust Horde takes control of the majority of Sera's urban, military, and manufacturing centers within 24 hours. The COG orders any survivors to Jacinto Plateau, a safe haven from Locust underground attacks, and then uses orbital laser weapons in a scorched earth strategy to deny the Locust Horde its gains. The human survivors that could not make it become known as the "Stranded"Emergence Day", the Locust continue to attack the fortified Jacinto Plateau and force the COG to turn to the infirm, the young, and the condemned to replace their dwindling numbers. The game begins as Marcus Fenix, a COG soldier imprisoned for abandoning his post to attempt to rescue his father, is pardoned after only four years of his sentence and freed from prison by his friend Dominic Santiago.
CHARACTERS:
Main characters : Baird, Cole, Marcus, and Dom.
Gears of War focuses primarily on Marcus Fenix, the main character, and Delta Squad's consisting of Marcus, Dominic, Augustus "Cole Train" Cole, and Damon Baird encounters with the Locust Horde. Players take control of Marcus Fenix, freshly rescued by Dominic Santiago from the Jacinto Maximum Security Penitentiary.
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